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Your Quick Guide to GDPR Fines and Sanctions
The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is novel not just because of the sweeping nature of the regulation. It's also one of the first privacy regulations to demand compliance from...
GDPR and Brexit: How Data Protection Will Be Impacted
Brexit will change almost every core function for UK companies that do business with the EU: from trade to regulation, hiring and transport, there's nothing that goes untouched by the withdrawal...
What Is the GDPR and When Do You Need a GDPR Representative?
In 2018, the European Commission introduced the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). It shook the world because it applied both to European businesses and to any organization that processes...
Privacy Shield companies and Brexit
When the “General Data Protection Regulation” (the “GDPR”) took effect on 25 May 2018, it applied in all EU Member States, including the UK. However, since 31 January 2020, the UK has officially...
Will complying with India’s privacy law…
"Although deviations do exist among key privacy principles, such as the PDPB's (Personal Data Protection Bill) data localization requirement, a careful analysis suggests the PDPB is different from...
The challenge of adequacy with Brazil’s General Data Protection Law
"Compliance with the Brazilian General Data Protection Law has proven to be an essential and complex challenge for organizations. The lack of a data-driven culture, legal uncertainties, low...
Personal Data Leaked To Gambling Companies
"Despite the new customer identity verification rules introduced by the UK Gambling Commission, effective May 7, 2019 as part of their three-year plan to ensure a “fairer and safer” gambling...
Europe’s privacy overhaul has led to $126 million in fines
The EU’s GDPR privacy law led to over 160,000 data breach notifications, according to law firm DLA Piper. The biggest penalty under GDPR to date was a fine of 50 million euros imposed on Google, DLA...
Facial recognition: EU considers ban of up to five years
"Regulators want time to work out how to prevent the technology being abused. The technology allows faces captured on CCTV to be checked in real time against watch lists, often compiled by...
Google wants to make third-party cookies obsolete
"The company revealed plans to phase out third-party cookies recently on the official Chromium blog to increase "the privacy of web browsing". Google wants to address the need of "users, publishers...
Washington State Takes Another Pass at a Privacy Law
"Like the proposal that failed last year, Senate Bill 6281 would apply to companies large and small conducting business in Washington that control or process data for at least 100,000 consumers." To...
EU Parliament debates: Could California be considered ‘adequate’ on its own?
"Could California have its own Privacy Shield arrangement separate from the rest of the U.S.? That was the most exciting question that emerged from a discussion about the data-transfer agreement’s...
South Korean Court Imposes Personal Liability on Privacy Officer for Data Breach
"The privacy officer was accused of violating South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Act and the Network Act, which require the person responsible for the management of personal data to take...
Avoid heavy AI regulation, White House tells EU
"The US administration has urged European lawmakers to avoid heavy regulation frameworks in the future rollout of Artificial Intelligence technologies on the continent. The call comes ahead of the...
California Will Be Key Battleground in Tech Privacy Fight in 2020
"On Jan. 1, the law—the California Consumer Privacy Act—officially took effect. But that is hardly the end of it. The legislation could very well be back on the ballot in the state in 2020, an...